Indigofera aspalathoides - Wiry Indigo

❏ Binomial Name : Indigofera aspalathoides DC.

❏ Synonym : Aspalathus indica, Indigofera aspalathifolia

❏ Family : Leguminosae

❏ Common Name : Wiry Indigo

❏ Tamil Name : Shivanarvembu

❏ Hindi Name : 

❏ IUCN Status : Not Evaluated

Indigofera aspalathoides Botanical Description

Subshrub, much branched; young stems appressed-pubescent with white hairs, later glabrescent; stipules minute, setaceous; leaves sessile, digitate, subfasciculate, 1-5-foliolate; leaflets linear to obovate, often involute, 1 mm wide or less, obtuse at the apex, cuneate at the base, glabrous above, sparsely appressed-pubescent beneath; flowers about 5-6 mm long, solitary, axillary, on pedicels about 5 mm long; bracts minute, setaceous; calyx 1-1.5 mm long with deltoid lobes, sparsely pubescent; petals reddish; fruit linear, straight, 5-15 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, sparsely pubescent, 3-8-seeded. Fl. &Fr.: June-December.

Indigofera aspalathoides Medicinal uses

❀ Leaves, flowers and tender shoots are employed in decoction as a cooling and demulcent drink and in elephantiasis, leprosy and cancer, and as an alternative in secondary syphilis etc.

❀ Root is chewed for toothache and aphthae.

❀ The whole plant rubber with butter is applied to reduce oedematous tumours. 

❀ The whole plant is an ingredient of an oil preparation used in the treatment of wounds, burns, ulcers, various skin diseases, including leprosy

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